18120For then is Tarquine brought vnto his bed,

121Intending wearinesse with heauie sprite:

122For after supper long he questioned,

123With modest Lucrece, and wore out the night,

124Now leaden slumber with liues strength doth fight,

125 And euerie one to rest themselues betake,

126 Saue theeues, and cares, and troubled minds that (wake.

19127As one of which doth Tarquin lie reuoluing

128The sundrie dangers of his wils obtaining:

129Yet euer to obtaine his will resoluing.

130Though weake-built hopes perswade him to abstai-(ning

131Dispaire to gaine doth traffique oft for gaining,

132 And when great treasure is the meede proposed,

133 Though death be adiūct, ther's no death supposed.

20134Those that much couet are with gaine so fond,

135That what they haue not, that which they possesse

136They scatter and vnloose it from their bond,

137And so by hoping more they haue but lesse,

138Or gaining more, the profite of excesse

139 Is but to surfet, and such griefes sustaine,

140 That they proue bāckrout in this poore rich gain.